UK police probe MP murder as suspect said to be on 'de-radicalisation' scheme
A candle is lit next to a photograph of British lawmaker David Amess at St Michael's and All Angels Church, Leigh-on-Sea, a district of Southend-on-Sea, southeast England, on October 17, 2021 ahead of a special vigil in honour of Amess who was fatally stabbed while holding a constituency surgery nearby. PHOTO/ AFP
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Veteran Conservative lawmaker Amess, who was 69, was stabbed to death on Friday as he met voters at a church in Leigh-on-Sea, east of London, in the second such attack on an MP in just over five years
